Has anyone desinged "Adobe Print Only Reports" in NWDS?

[Former Member]

Hello,

We are considering designing SAP Print only reports in Adobe Designer available with NWDS. I have the following questions

1) Do we need a license to design and run "PRINT ONLY FORMS" ?

2) Is there any tutorial available for the same?

3) Can we put images on the Adobe Form that reside on our file server of the machine on which WAS is running?

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Shubham

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shubham,

Yes you can do this in NDS through Adobe designer.

But for this you need to install ADS on server.

Yes you can also put Images in this. and you can create print ony forms.You need to take license from SAP to use this ADS services.

refer following weblog for details.

/people/achim.hauck/blog/2005/02/04/my-struggles-with-the-adobe-document-services-in-was640

You can also find tutorial related to ADS from the below link:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/web dynpro sample applications and tutorials.htm#program

Hope this will work for you.

Regards,

Bhavik

[markus_meisl]

Hi Shubham,

here are a couple of basic statements on printing with Interactive Forms.

- For any high-volume printing scenario such as invoice runs etc. (usually backend jobs), SAP strongly recommends to use the ABAP integration of Interactive Forms (transaction SFP).

- For individual/single-page frontend printing, using the Web Dynpro for Java integration is OK.

- If you create print forms with the Interactive Forms solution, no additional licenses apply. They would apply if you created your own custom forms using interactive fields on them in a production environment.

- In any Web AS 6.40, there should be a sample form FP_EXAMPLE_01, which you can use to familiarize yourself with the technology.

- Graphics can be inserted using the Adobe LiveCycle Designer in the development environment.

Kind regards,

Markus Meisl

SAP NetWeaver Product Management

[Former Member]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for your answer.

I have already desgined few interactive forms for ERP 2005 Solution in R/3 using SFP Transaction. So I am familier with that part.

I haven't designed anything in the NWDS. Since the customer doesn't have ECC 5.0 system, we cannot design forms in R/3. The customer requirement is to have print only reports in Adobe which are currently existing in SAP Script. Hence I needed some help in this regard as I am not sure what and how will the system perform to generate these reports in the frontend.

If you can give some more insight on this it will be great.

Thanks and Regards,

Shubham

[markus_meisl]

Hi Shubham,

unfortunately, the setup you describe (print forms created in Web AS 6.40 using Interactive Forms and backend data in lower-release R/3 to replace SAPscript or Smart Forms) is something that SAP explicitly recommends NOT to do. (See also one of the FAQs in SDN: http://sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/def/faq on interactive forms based on adobe software.faq#q-8)

The first version of Interactive Forms (in SAP NetWeaver 04/mySAP ERP 2004) was optimized for interactive forms usage. With mySAP ERP 2005, it is planned to ship hundreds of forms in the new format.

Considering your customer's current landscape, it would probably be more advisable to generate PDFs out of the SAPscript forms until they are at the ERP 2005 level. From concrete project experience, we strongly recommend not to pursue the avenue you describe above.

Sorry...

Regards,

Markus